Spartanism
- a word derived from Spartan.
Example Sentences
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New designs often emphasize the penny-pinching Spartanism that pioneering architects borrowed from industrial buildings.
From Time Magazine Archive
Having broken out of his own Spartanism, he remade the Trask household, and Adam gave him no opposition.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
And then they spin out phrases of exaggerated Spartanism by the yard, and suggest some lawyer as the rising hope of the country.
From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Labouchere, Henry
That viciously clawing little paw shot out farther, and there was a limit to Spartanism in a little girl born so far from that heroic land.
From The Copy-Cat and Other Stories by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
Truly and really the Prussian Soldiers, with their intelligent silence, with the touches of effective Spartanism I saw or fancied in them, were the class of people that pleased me best.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas
